Re: clone from url with email address as username?(escaping @ symbol)

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 29, 2009, 14:30 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq1vlp962h.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0909290725w616c3ea9vcb1d2c53950f7788@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

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> Heya,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 16:20, Ben Bennett <benbennett@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any escape sequence for the @ symbol when cloning?
>
> I thought @ is not allowed to be in an url? What do you need to
> escape it for?

If your username is "foo@bar.com", then the clone URL might well be

ssh://foo@bar.com@server.com/path/to/repo

The question is which @ is the login/server separator, and which one is included in the login. A quick test with

git clone ssh://foo@bar.com@localhost/path/to/repo

shows me that Git does the right thing, i.e. uses "foo@bar.com" as the login, without the need to escape it.

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Matthieu Moy
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